Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 29, Decatur, Adams County, 29 September 1898 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT BVIRY THURSDAY HORSING BY LEW G. ELLINGHAM, Publisher. lI.SOPER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the Postofficeat Decatur. Indiana as Second-Class Mail Matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, SEPT. 29. OUR TICKET. For Congress, ORLANDO J. LOTZ. For Representative HENRY KRICK. For Prosecuting Attorney DAVID E. SMITH. For Clerk Adams Circuit Court ELMER JOHNSON. For Treasurer JONAS NEUENSCH WANDER. For Sheriff DANIEL N. ERWIN. For Recorder THOMAS M. GALLOGLY. For Surveyor WILLIAM E. FULK. ;For Commissioner—First District JOSEPH E. MANN. For Commissioner —Second District. FREDERICK REPPERT. For Coroner DR. CHARLES S. CLARK. Headquarters Opened. On and after October 1. 1898, the Democratic Headquarters in Meibers’ hall will be open to the public. A competent person will be in charge of the rooms which will be open from 8 a. m. to 10 p. m. of each day, except Sunday. All the leading daily papers will be on file, also an abundance of excellent literature. The public generally are invited. Political Calendar. Bingen. Monday evening. Oct. 3, 7:30 p. m. Hons. 0. J. Lotz, James R. Bobo, R. K. Erwin and C. M. France. Pleasant Mills, Tuesday evening. Oct. 4, 7:30 p: m. Hons. O. J. Lotz. John T. France J. Frank Mann and Dore B. Erwin. Steele. P. 0., Wednesday evening, Oct. 5, 7:30 p. m. Hons. (5. J. Lotz, David E. Smith. John F. Snow and James T. Merryman. Berne, Thursday enening, Oct. 6. 7:30 p. m. Hons. 0. J. Lotz. R. K. Erwin, S. A. M. Butcher and Clark J. Lutz.

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Linn Grove, Friday evening, Oct. 7, 7:30 p. m. Hons. O. J. Lotz, David E. Smith, J. C. Moran and Jacob Butcher. Geneva, Saturday afternoon, Oct. 8,2:00 o’clock p, m. Hons. O. J. Lotz, John T. France, Amos P. Beatty and L. C. DeVoss. Decatur, Saturday evening, Oct. 8, 7-30 p. m. Hon. O. J. Lotz. Bosse’s opera house, Decatur, Saturday evening, October 15, at 7:30. Hon. Samuel M. Ralston, democratic candidate for secretary of state. The merchant who advertises is the one who reaps the benefit of a good trade at all seasons of the year. Try it and you will buy it. Candidates for township nominations next Saturday will leave their names and SI with Chairman I utz or at this office, between this time and tomorrow night. Union Basil Banner Hunt is booked for a campaign speech at Bosse’s opera house Saturday nignt. He is the republican candidate for secretary of state. Many candidates and much interest is being manifested in the township nominations of three justices of the peace and three constables. The nominations will be made next Saturday. Hon. Dick Erwin reports a most enjoyable meeting at Albion, Saturday. A large crowd and an unusual display of democratic enthusiasm was apparent on every hand. Dick is lavish in his praise for the treatment accorded him. The record of the democratic party upon state issues is one of eminent pride to the party. Never has more or better laws been enacted than was during the official period which marks an important epoch in the history of our state. The democratic party is the party of the people. On Saturday evening, October 15, the Hon. Samuel M. Ralston, democratic candidate for secretary of state, will address our people on the political issues. Mr. Ralston is one of the most able speakers in the state and will clearly and logically define the attitude and issues now under discussion and of interest to every one. Too much Hanna has resulted in too much Alger, and too much Alger has caused disease, starvation and death among the soldiers who went forth brave and strong to fight the Spaniards and to defend the stars and stripes. Public patience has been tried to its very limit. Corrupt political bosses have ruled the republican administration. —Chicago Democrat.

Teddy Roosevelt got there with both feet and was nominated by the New York republicans for governor. Alger, of the war department, could not queer the spell. None but the brightest and most moral of men should represent us in congress. Lotz should receive your consideration in this district. Do not move out of your township before election day, as by so doing you loose your right to vote. After October Bth the limitation of precinct residence expires. Keep this date in mind and hold your residence until after November Bth. Democrats will please bear in mind the township mass convention at democratic headquarters in the Armory next Saturday afternoon and evening. Every democrat is requested to attend. Three justices of the peace and that many constables are to be nominated. Candidate Cromer and State Committeeman Case were here yesterday in consultation with the republican committee and other republicans. The object of the meeting was to bolster up a little enthusiasm in the ranks of the g. o. p. It is a hard job this year. The campaign throughout the state is progressing most satisfactory, with every indication pointing to the election of the entire democratic ticket. State issues are being defined and the record of the democratic party is an enviably one during her long and trusted administration of affairs. The public career of Judge Lotz has been one of honor throughout. For nine years he presided as circuit judge of Delaware county, reducing a republican majority of 3,000 to a majority for himself. At this rate in the district his vote will lie too large to count, His election is being predicted by steady headed politicians who know the sign of political destiny quite well. It is acknowledged that he deserves election, owing to his clean and untainted record. The highest type of manhood should represent us in congress, and with Lotz we have everything that morality and honesty stands for. The speech of Congressman Bailey at Fort Wayne Monday evening was a master piece, and demonstrated the ability of the young Texan as a leader of the mighty’ hosts of democracy. His logical address contained many new and taking illustrations, proving his ability and establising his right to lead the democrats in congress. In other words he is a second Bryan, possessing many of the peculiar characteristics that have made Bryan the political tower he is. So next to our magnetic leader comes Bailey. Courageous and every inch a statesman whom some day the democratic party will take pride in honoring in even a more fitting manner than he now enjoys.

After long waiting the Spanish powers in Cuba have at length con ceded permission to the United States to land one ship loaded with supplies for the suffering Cubans. But it seems probable that most of the Cubans that are left must now be in a condition when relief will be of little benefit to them. There are of course the soldiers of the Cuban army but it is announced that no relief will be given to them unless they disband. Whether or not this is the price paid for Spanish permission to land one boat load of supplies is not stated. It is a remarkable thing that, Spain has agreed to surrender all sovereignty over Cuba, Gen. Blanco should be allowed to exercise supreme control even as against the United States government. The Spaniards did not try any such high-handed proceedings in the days of Andrew Jackson. —Sentinel. The campaign was opened in Indiana last Saturday amid a great flouish of enthusiasm and encouragement for success. In fifty-five counties where speeches were the order of things, great crowds were in attendance, making a marked contrast between the display made by the democrats and that of the republicans a week previous. Chairman Martin of the state committee reports the most encouraging signs from all parts of the state. A high feeling of hope prevails, leaving but little doubt that the democrats will redeem the political complexion of Indiana this year. But these glad tidings should not cause any democrat to rest upon his oars in the vain hope that success will come without work. Notliing can be accomplished without a proper effort, and in bringing about such a glorious result, it means that every democrat must help the good cause along. The appearance of Judge Lotz in this county next week will be a signal for much party work. The Judge is amadmired man, a close student and as a representative in congress would reflect the proper d'gnity and credit upon the vast industrial urogress of this, the second largest congressional district in the United States. The Judge is a safe man to tie to. His moral standing is so far superior to that of his opponent, that republicans as well as democrats are flocking to his support. As a reason they say that one congressman can not' save their party, and that business interests of this great district demands a representative in congress who is honorable and upright. All the elements of true manhood is found in the past history of the democratic nominee, while moral degeneracy and political hypocracy is closely associated with the character and name of the republican candidate. Between the two it is not hard to choose.

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CAMPAIGN OF EDDCATION That Is What the Gold Bugs and Plutocrats Fear. They Know It Means Death to Syndicates. Trusts, Corporationsand Monopolies Which Have Been Oppressing the People. It is an old aphorism “that men who think govern those who toil.” A “Campaign of Education” is a misnomer unless it sets men to thinking. Indeed, the highest function of education is to teach men to think. If it fails in that essential particular, we have men who accept what is told them as truth and who, however much they may boast of their independence, are, nevertheless, the hypnotized victims of cunning men who use them to promote their schemes of aggrandizement. The great mass of the people can have no interest in promoting the schemes of syndicates, trusts, corporations, monopolies or the millionaire class, who, operating in conjunction, constitute what is known as the “money power,” or the plutocracy of the country, which, representing 4 per cent of the population, has managed to secure at least two-thirds of the wealth of the country. And this 4 per cent of the population, by devising schemes, the result of thinking, are now dominating the financial policy of the republic. They constitu'e the brains and backbone of the gold standard aggregation of plutocrats and expect, by the influence they may be able to exert by the use of money in the campaign, to substitute duplicity, and all the arts of chicanery for education. These golo standard advocates propose to do the thinking for the masses of the people, and lead them, as white horses lead droves of mules, or as bell wethers lead flocks of sheep. They are destined to experience sad disappointments. The great body of the people are thinkers along lines which involve their welfare. The mind forces of the masses are now intensely active. The chuck-a-luck methods of education, the tricks and enchantments of the gold standard wizards will not be accepted as arguments by the rank and file of the American voters; or as reasons why they should abdicate these prerogatives to do their own thinking on all political questions, including the “free coinage” or the "sound money” issues. It may be expected that the Republican speakers and the Republican press, during the campaign will indulge in the usual amount of vulgar epithets, when referring to those who favor free coinage and uphold the silver dollar as sound money. In 1896 the men who rallied to the standard of William Jennings Bryan, more than 6,500,000 of free men who would not bow down and worship the gold standard, as the slaves of old Nabuchadnezzar worshiped his golden image, were denominated “anarchists,” "communists,” “idiots,” “border ruffians,” “socialists,” “blackguards” and other equally argumentative epithets. It was the goldbug method of education and will again be introduced, but with less avail. The people are now asking for facts, and they will ply the gold bugspeakers with questions which they will shrink from answering. One of the choice declarations of the goldbugs has been that to coin standard silver dollars would drive gold ou t of the country, a condition which they depricated as a far reaching calamity. Well, from 1878 we have coined 423,. 000,000 of standard silver dollars, all debtpaying, legal tender, sound money dollars, but gold did not, therefore, leave the country, nor was it ever shown that, owing to the coinage of silver dollars, any calamity, iarge or small, was created; and if such a charge or any other charge intimating that the coinage of standard silver dollars has been productive of a panic in business, com- . mercial or industrial aftmrs, those

THE DECATUR NATIONAL BANK, DECATUR INDIANA. July 14, 1898. RESOURCES. I LIABILITIES. Loans and Discounts, - §186,459.16 Capital, - - - 8100,000.00 Overdrafts, - - 3.426.31 Surplus, - - 7.500.'00 U. S. Bonds and premiums 27.500.00 Undivided profits, - 1,431.62 Real estate and furniture, 8,388.79 Circulation, - . 22,500.00 Cash and Exchange, - 73,041.55 Deposits, - - 167.384,19 1298,815.81 ■ 8298,815.81 DIRECTORS. OFFICERS. P. W. Smith, J. B. Holthovse, P. W. Smith, J. a. Holthouse, E. X. Ehinger, J. H. Hobrock, President, Vice President. D. Sprang, C. A. Dugan, C. A. Dugan, E X. Ehinger, H R. Moltz, Cashier Ass't Cashier, A general banking business transacted. Foreign drafts sold, Interest paid on certificates left six or twelve months.

who make the charge will be required to point out when and where it oc-! curred. This they wiM be unable to do. The people are thinking and bald assertion, vulgar epithets and duplicity will be swept away before the onward march of thought which education,\ worthy of the name, will emancipate the people from their money po-wer vassalage. The farmers, the working men, the producing classes of the republic have, to an extent which caunot occur again, | been terrorized by the soothsayers and magicians of the money power—a favorite prognostication being that the free | coinage of silver would not only drive gold out of the country, but would, to I the utter consternation of rich and poor I alike, bring home from Europe the i stocks and bonds held there for pay- ; meat. Suppose this should be true, : “what greater blessing,” queries a dis- ( anguished United States senator, “could be bestowed upon this country i than the giving to the nation and the I people a sufficient amount of sound, irredeemable gold and silver coined money I of our constitution to enable our people | to transact all their business, develop ail ! our resources and pay for and own all , the obligations and debts of every kind of our government, states, municipalities and corporations and receive the interest and enjoy perfect financial inde- i of all nations and all gold syndicates?”

But thoughtful men will ask the gold-' bug concoclers of the delusion relating to the return of securities held abroad, because of the triumph of free coinage in the United Statr'i, in what sort of money would the foreigners expect to be paid fortheir securities? Manifestly in silver, the goldbua theory being that the gold has already been driven out by silver. The mere statement of the proposition reduces it to a delusion that no thoughtful man will consider for one minute, and yet this senseless vagary has been injected time and again into the discussion of the money question as one of the impending disasters which would befall the country provided free coinage was to triumph and silver regain its rights at the mints to stand, as the constitution of the republic intended it should stand, as one of the metals out of which standard, legal tender sound money dollars should be coined. | Again, the people have heard that already the limited coinage of the standard silver dollar, the sound silver dollar, the legal tender I silver dollar is embarrassing the government by requiring vaults of large dimensions in which to store it. The educational knaves who resort to this trick laugh in their sleeves at the gullibility of those they impose upon. Up to 1896, as has been stated, 423,000,000 of standard silver dollars had been coined, of this amount more than 375,-j 000,000 are in circulation in the form of silver certificates, leaving about 48,000,000 silver dollars in circulation, or about 67 cents per capita of population, or if the total amount, 423,000,000 were in circulation as coin, it would be only about si> per capita of our population or if the total amount could be equally distributed to families of five persons, each I family would have S3O. Along such lines the people are think- 1

ing and, as the campaign progresses, they will be heard resolutely demand- ■ ing of the goldbug Republicans facts instead of delusions manufactured by plutocratic spoilsmen to deceive men who do not think. In speaking of the resignation from the chairmanship of the so-called “Gold Democracy ”of lightning-change artist, \V. D. Bynum, the Stanton, i (Va.) Spectator says: “It seems that he has been receiving 88.500 a year I from the date of the bolt inlß96upto i a few days ago, when the committee, relying on the •patriotism’ of its officers, adopted a resolution that they l should serve without pay. The patriotic Bynum at once stopped ’preserv- , ing the honor of the nation' and resigned.” ___________ Many new advertisements appear i in this issue. Auditor Mangold was traveling over southern Adams the first of the week J posting notices relative to changes in j voting precincts, thereby complying ' with the law. In another column you will find the report of the condition of the Decatur National Bank at the close of business ! Sept. 20, 1898. The report shows this I institution to be in a very flourishing ; condition. Thev have resources to the amount of §298,815.81. have loan and discounts to the amount of JBl,956.16 and a surplus of §7,500. Ine Decatur National is one of the lies banks in Indiana and under the manI agement of Mr. C. A. Dugan as cas ier, is moving right along. Look up i this report whether you are interested in their financial standing or not. Attention Democrats of Washington Township

and City of Decatur. There will be a mass convention held at the Democratic Headquarters in Meiliers hall in the Citv o Wur on Saturday October 1. I s -*'• C two until eight o’clock p. ni., ’ or . purpose of nominating three Ju- 5 of the Peace and three constables m and for said township and city <’ voted for at the November election. To insure the printing of namethe ticket all candidates should han their names and Si to Chairman or at the office of the Democrat. Clark J. Lvtz, Chairman. Lew G. Ellixgham, Sec y. Attention Democrats of I nion ToontMP A meeting will be held at school house in Inion Saturday evening, Oct- ? >,a ' fanfor the purpose of selecting t and didates for justice of the I ‘ two candidates for const fl c No?* township, to be voted for a j* anee prelection. A gocxl ts desired. A Announcement. , necatur ,n To the Democratic voters o Washington township: t my I would respectfully present* peace «• as a candidate for ■ ,u »’' c^.„ u t r consia er “ t U Washington township, for eDt ion .<« at the Democratic Mae’ \o <o'clock Pheld October 1.1595. from? to at Meibers hall in